noun:

• law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation
• vinaya (rules for the monastic community) - Buddhism term
• Ritsu (school of Buddhism) - abbreviation ➜ 律宗
• lushi (style of Chinese poem) - abbreviation ➜ 律詩
• (musical) pitch - also りち
• six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・呂
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) - abbreviation ➜ 律旋

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• (in traditional Eastern music) step (corresponding to a Western semitone)

noun / prefix / suffix:

• medium; average; middle

noun:

• moderation
• middle school - abbreviation ➜ 中一・中学校
• China - abbreviation ➜ 中国
• volume two (of three) - abbreviation ➜ 中巻

suffix noun:

• during (a certain time when one did or is doing something); under (construction, etc.); while ➜ 話し中
• in; out of (e.g. three out of ten people) ➜ 中【じゅう】

noun:

• brass button; golden button
• boy's school uniform - colloquialism
• male student - colloquialism

noun / suffix noun:

• fiscal year (usu. April 1 to March 31 in Japan); financial year
• academic year; school year
• product year

noun:

• annual
• fiscal year; school year

suffix:

• year (in some sequence)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to raise; to elevate ➜ 手を挙げる
• to do up (one's hair) ➜ 髪を上げる
• to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to surface (a submarine, etc.)
• to land (a boat)
• to deep-fry ［揚げる］
• to show someone (into a room)
• to summon (for geishas, etc.) ［揚げる］ - usually written using kana alone
• to send someone (away)
• to enrol (one's child in school); to enroll
• to increase (price, quality, status, etc.); to develop (talent, skill); to improve
• to make (a loud sound); to raise (one's voice) ➜ 声を上げる
• to earn (something desirable)
• to praise
• to give (an example, etc.); to cite - usu. 挙げる
• to summon up (all of one's energy, etc.) - usu. 挙げる
• to arrest ［挙げる］
• to nominate ［挙げる］
• to give ［上げる］ - polite language
• to offer up (incense, a prayer, etc.) to the gods (or Buddha, etc.) ［上げる］
• to bear (a child)
• to conduct (a ceremony, esp. a wedding) - usu. 挙げる

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• (of the tide) to come in

ichidan verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to vomit

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• to do for (the sake of someone else) - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone - polite language
• to complete ... - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 作り上げる
• to humbly do ... - after the -masu stem of a humble verb to increase the level of humility - humble language ➜ 申し上げる

noun:

• national language
• Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan) ➜ 国語科
• native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)

noun:

• child (esp. a boy)
• viscount ➜ 子爵
• master (founder of a school of thought, esp. Confucius) - honorific language
• philosophy (branch of Chinese literature); non-Confucian Hundred Schools of Thought writings ➜ 諸子百家
• you (of one's equals) - archaism

suffix noun:

• -er (i.e. a man who spends all his time doing...)

noun / prefix noun:

• smallness; small item
• short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days) ➜ 小の月
• elementary school - abbreviation ➜ 小学校
• younger or inferior (of two items or people with the same name)
• unit of field area (approx. 400 sq m) - archaism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be duplicated; to be repeated ➜ ダブル
• to overlap; to fall together (of dates, etc.); to coincide
• to repeat (a failed course, school year, etc.)
• to make a double play - Baseball term ➜ ダブルプレー
• to make a double fault (in tennis) - Sports term ➜ ダブルフォールト

noun:

• young child; toddler
• child over 1 but not yet of school age - Law term

noun / ~する noun:

• procurement; purchase; buying ［購買］

noun:

• school store; co-op; school canteen; tuck shop - abbreviation ➜ 購買部【こうばいぶ】

noun / ~の noun:

• active duty; active service
• student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try - often as 現役で ➜ 浪人【ろうにん】

noun / ~の noun:

• noted family; noble family
• prestigious school, organization, business, etc. ➜ 名門校【めいもんこう】

noun:

• study of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture
• provincial school (under Japan's ritsuryo system and pre-Sui Chinese law) - archaism ➜ 大学

noun:

• English conversation
• school for English conversation - abbreviation

noun / ~する noun:

• order (esp. to a number of people); command
• ritual of bowing at start and end of school class

noun / ~する noun:

• end of work day
• end of school term; end of school year

noun:

• one's specialty; one's forte
• specialty of a kabuki school

noun:

• mean; average - Mathematics term
• middle-school arithmetic - from 中学, 算数 - abbreviation

noun / ~する noun:

• instruction; guidance; tutelage

noun:

• licensed elementary school teacher - archaism

noun:

• written investigation; report of an investigation
• school record (on a student); transcript (of grades)

noun / adjectival noun:

• lofty; grand; impressive

noun:

• high school and university - abbreviation ➜ 高等学校・大学

noun:

• high and inside pitch - Baseball term - From English "in high"
• inter high school - abbreviation ➜ インターハイ・全国高等学校総合体育大会

noun:

• Buddhist center for study and meditation; monastery; temple - abbreviation of 栴檀林 - Buddhism term ➜ 栴檀
• Danrin style of haikai poetry (playful and oriented to the common person); Danrin school (of haikai poetry) - abbreviation ➜ 俳諧・談林風・談林派